> Six months ago one of his colleagues was sacked for fraud. My friend
> was offered the sacked guys job. He's been doing that job since and is
> on the appropriate pay scale.
> This week the job has been advertised. He was never told the position
> was simply covering another post. As far as he understood it, he had
> got the job.
As an employee of a formerly state-owned utility company, I can tell
you that this practice is rife, and done every few years - along with
the other old favourite "divide and conquer".
They "evolve" a department into something so small it barely
functions, threaten everyone that they can get the job done cheaper if
it was outsourced to encourage people to agree new terms and
conditions, then proceed to enforce the same on everyone else to
"level the playing field", or by claiming that their proposals are
better than a random benchmark salary they dug up for a completely
different job - invariably unskilled and in no way related or
comparable in any meaningful way.
Sometimes, as in your friends' case, they just do it on an individual
basis...
One of my colleagues has been doing a job for 3+ years, and has been
told to apply for it - at the same time removing payments he's
received for doing the job, forcing him to move to a depot 40 miles
away which was erroneously flagged as his base according to HR, yet
wanting him to carry on doing the same job that he now isn't being
paid for (there isn't anyone else in a position to do it at present). |